Also known as Sulcusuchus erraini type locality (Jacobacci); Laguna Cari-Laufquén Grande
Where: Río Negro, Argentina (41.0° S, 69.5° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° S, 55.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Coli Toro Member (Los Alamitos Formation), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• "Los Alamitos Formation (basal levels of the ‘Coli Toro’ Formation sensu Gasparini & Spalletti 1990); upper Campanian–lower Maastrichtian (Getino 1995, Papú & Sepúlveda 1995)" (O'Gorman et al. 2013)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
• Fragment of mandibular symphysis
Collected by R. Casamiquela in 1970; reposited in the MLP
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
• MLP, Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
Primary reference: Z. Gasparini and L. A. Spalletti. 1990. Un nuevo cocodrilo en los depósitos mareales Maastrichtianos de la Patagonia noroccidental. Ameghiniana 27(1-2):141-150 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/F. Aspromonte]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 142118: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 05.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Sulcusuchus erraini n. gen. n. sp.
Sulcusuchus erraini n. gen. n. sp. Gasparini and Spalletti 1990 plesiosaur MLP 88-IV-10-1 (holotype), fragment of mandibular symphysis
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